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Freedom anchored in acts of self-reliance and the mastery of the market, of nature, of the libido, of other people can be intoxicating, functioning like an aphrodisiac. Even if its social reach recedes as capital accumulation becomes the exclusive terrain of only the mightiest conquistadors, the dr…

Stories about what we now call “the homeland,” its origins and unfolding, do not, conventionally, feature capitalism. Other tales about the country’s history usually take priority. Favorites include, perhaps first and foremost, the New World as the incubator of liberty and democracy in the Western …

With the recent return of figures such as Abrams and Bolton to the public stage, this analysis remains relevant. And yet it also does not seem fully fitting today. In the Trump era, the administration’s stance toward Latin America has followed a jumbled set of cues, but has tended toward xenophobic…

Today we might assume that the presence of churchgoers in the movement was a moderating force. But in the 1970s and ’80s, religious people who had spent time in countries to the south were bringing the teachings of liberation theology back with them. This movement, born in Latin America, insisted o…

[...] Chaudhuri’s antinarrative miniaturism (as per Hilary Mantel), his interest in modest worldliness and the domestic life of a city, won a select but influential cast of admirers, huddled together against the backdrop of the 1990s postmodern resuscitation of narrative. But as Coe’s phrasing sug…